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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bagley, worth, 1874- (search)
April 6, 1874; was graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1895. After serving two years on the Montgomery, Texas, and the Maine, he was made ensign July 1897. He was a short time on the Indiana, and then became the executive clerk of Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee on the Maine. In November, 1897, he was appointed inspector of the new torpedo-boat Winslow. and when she went into commission on Dec. 28, he was made her executive officer, under Lieut. J. B. Bernadou, her commander. In April, 1898, the Winslow was with the fleet mobilized for operations in Cuban waters. On the morning of May 11 she prepared, with the Hudson and Wilmington, to force an entrance to the harbor of Cardenas. She was fired upon by one of several Spanish gunboats, and immediately there was a general engagement. the Winslow, was soon disabled, and was with difficulty hauled out of range of the Spanish guns. The guns of the enemy were silenced by the Wilmington, and just as the engagement ended. Ensign
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Moore, John Bassett 1860- (search)
Moore, John Bassett 1860- Author; born in Smyrna, Del., Dec. 3, 1860; was educated at the University of Virginia, and John Bassett Moore. admitted to the bar of Delaware in 1883. In 1885 he was appointed law clerk in the State Department in Washington, D. C., and in the following year became third assistant Secretary of State. In 1891 he resigned this office to accept the chair of International Law and Diplomacy in Columbia University. In April, 1898, he was recalled to the United States Department of State, and in September became secretary and counsel to the American Peace Commissioners in Paris. He is author of Extradition and Interstate rendition; American notes on the conflict of laws; History and digest of international arbitrations, etc., and one of the editors of the Political Science quarterly, and of the Journal du droit international Prive;. See Professor Moore's article on the Alaskan boundary, in vol. i., p. 81.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherman, John 1823-1896 (search)
Sherman, John 1823-1896 Statesman; born in Lancaster, O., May 10, 1823; brother of Gen. William T. Sherman; was admitted to the bar in 1844; elected to Congress in 1854, and served there until 1861, when he became United States Senator. He was a leading member of the finance committee of the Senate during the Civil War. He and Thaddeus Stevens were the framers of the bill passed in 1866-67 for the reorganization of the so-called seceded States. He was also the author of a bill providing for the resumption of specie payments on Jan. 1, 1879; and on March 4, 1877, President Hayes called him to his cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury. In 1881 he was re-elected to the United States Senate; became chairman of the committee on foreign relations; resigned John Sherman. in 1897 to become Secretary of State; and retired from that office in April, 1898. He died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 22, 1900. Mr. Sherman published Recollections (2 volumes, 1896).
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woodford, Stewart Lyndon 1835- (search)
Woodford, Stewart Lyndon 1835- Diplomatist; born in New York City, Sept. 3, 1835; graduated at Columbia College in 1854; studied law and began practice in New York in 1857; was assistant United States district attorney for the southern Stewart Lyndon Woodford. district of New York in 1861-62; served in the National army in 1862-65, and received the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers; was lieutenant-governor of New York in 1865-68; Presidential elector and chairman of the electoral college in 1872; member of Congress in 1873-75; and United States attorney for the southern district of New York in 1877-83. He was a member of the commission that drafted the charter for the Greater New York in 1896. In 1897 he was appointed minister to Spain, and served in that office till April, 1898, when war was declared by the United States and he returned home.